Semi-AWOL
You may be wondering why I haven't
updated the comic for the past two weeks.
It's simple.
I'm dog-tired of the Great Orange Buffoon driving the
public conversation with his various poots, farts,
and tweets.
It's like having a single national TV channel that
shows only episodes of Honey Boo-Boo, forcing everyone
to talk about her because that's all there is.
This makes my brain hurt.
I know that a frog-march and a long prison stay
is in Mr. Pee-Tape's future so I constantly search
every corner of the 'net for clues every moment of
every goddamn day. Unfortunately this healthy need
for his fat orange
head on a pike blinkers my peripheral progressive vision
from
matters that used to be important before we were
cursed with a narcissist with his hand on The Button.
So I'm trapped in the
land of "Fuck! He's still president!"
for the duration.
I still have an inward need to skewer the 2nd Amendment,
to protect the polar bears, and to convince people
to stop eating animals so I'll just have to do my
best.
Bear with me.
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Remember the fake Ark they built in Kentucky? Get this:
In the beginning they were a for-profit enterprise
that needed tax breaks, then they said it was a non-profit
ministry in order to avoid paying taxes, then they
became a for-profit entity just long enough to sell
the land it sits on (worth $18 million) to the non-profit
part of the business for $10 (Yes, ten dollars) in
order to avoid paying taxes meant for nearby schools.
Religion. Nice business to be in... if screwing kids
is your priority.
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We're the only country on this planet whose leader
won't appear in public without full make-up.
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Maybe I'm crazy, but perhaps we can slow the spread
of terrorism by not selling weapons and ammunition
to just anyone who shakes a satchel of money in our
faces. (And by "our" I mean any munitions-manufacturing
country.)
Yes, I know it's a bit more complicated than that but
I'll bet many of those bullets ISIS is shooting at
our allies have "Made In USA" written on
them. We can control that pipeline if we wanted...
which suggests "someone" doesn't want to.
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Donald Trump, Jr.'s diary:
Monday: Denied meeting with Russian lawyer.
Tuesday: Admitted meeting with Russian lawyer, but
that was all. No serious stuff.
Wednesday: Okay, had to admit a Russian spook was in
the room, too.
Thursday: And a cannibal, but we didn't eat anyone.
Friday: Lisa Murkowski tastes like chicken.
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Anyone want to bet the Rooskies have a tape of the
DJT Jr. meeting at Trump Tower?
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Not long ago on CNN a moderator
was talking to six Giant Orange Baby-Man voters, asking
them important questions of the viewed through the
lens
of Redhatistan. Over
the course of the 5-minute segment one of the voters
basically
said
the following:
"It's Obama's fault that Trump got elected because
he didn't tell the country the Russians were hacking
the
election process but, yeah, I'd vote for Trump again
because he's opened a dialogue with Putin."
Darwin was exceedingly over-optimistic.
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NASA reports that it doesn't have the money
to send humans to Mars.
Good!
We don't need to send people to Mars. It's an infantile
fantasy. We'll have ruined this poor planet we live
on LONG before we have the technical expertise to do
anything but
engage in suicide missions to the Red Planet.
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Suppose the Russians had bombed the DNC headquarters
right before the election, killing thousands of people.
And we knew, without a shred of doubt, that it was,
indeed, the Russians who did this. Would you be shocked,
angry, and appalled if the new president not only ignored
the attack but invited those responsible into the White
House and shared military secrets with them?
The Russian attack on our election process was no less
of an attack on America than if they had used real
bombs, and the president and his party obviously don't
care. So how in HELL are the very houses of government
that have turned their backs on the people of this
country not currently in flames?
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I recently read a story of a man who, because of throat
cancer, lost his ability to speak, swallow, taste,
or smell. He was a man who once loved fine dining but
now gets his food through a hole in his abdomen.
The final words of his story was to remind us all to
not take our food for granted. "Don't just eat",
he says, "Savor everything."
This advice, of course, extends to almost everything
that we do, even something as simple as standing up
from a chair and walking across a room.
Every moment
is a small miracle. Savor everything that makes you
happy.
=Lefty=
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